The file home/.cache/tracker/meta.db-wal fills my entire 250gb boot drive. If I delete document this file grows until there is no more space; its 52.2gb.
I have read some posts saying to disable the tracker with tracker reset. Or set it to pause when it reaches a certain size. Or purge the tracker to remove it permanently etc. Running tracker status I get:
Currently indexed: 35980 files, 5753 folders
Remaining space on database partition: 231.3 MB (0.09%)
(tracker status:32570): Tracker-CRITICAL **: 15:45:30.833: Could not get miner progress for 'org.freedesktop.Tracker1.Miner.Extract': Timeout was reached
Data is still being indexed: Estimated 02m 13s left
However I believe disabling/pausing the tracker means I cannot search files? I need search functionality so that isn't an option. And a 52gb file to allow searching seems broken.
The problem has been around for a while with an open confirmed bug report from 2012 and posts from 2014, 2019, and 2021 the only "solutions" involve disabling search functions. Any fresh insights?
